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FEDERAL CALL 



TO THE 



People of the United States, 



TO 



TIONS, AND SAVE THEIR COUNTRY. 
SECOND EDITIOK IMPROVED, 



BY HENRY BAILEY, 

OF "WILMINGTON, (DELAWARE.) 



PHILADELPHIA: 

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR. 
1812. 



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FEDERAL CALL 



TO THE 



People of the United States. 



MY fellow labourers. T take this opportunity of call- 
insT your most earnest attention to the ensuing election. 

It may be remembered by many of you, that it is now 
three years since I first published this call of your atten- 
tion, in which the democrats, by their lying reports have 
involved us ; some of them I dispersed throueh the state 
of Delaware, through the Jerseys, and in Philadeiphia, 
where thousands of common labourers nad been groaning 
under a democratic government for nine years past, for 
the want of employment to support their poor families, 
and the consequence was you did well to search this small 
treatise for yourselves- for ever since that time Piiiladel- 
phia has chosen her own federal councils again. Neither 
is this all, for we have the satisfaction to see that there iS 
five federal states risen out of the democratic bondage 
again, and besides an increase of federal members more 
or less, all ove.r the United Stales, and it is expected by 
the next election that we shall have our old number of 
thirteen united federal states, and so have an opportunity 
of choosing our own federal president again, that will 
provide for his own country, and not for Buonaparte: 
therefore I call your most eaniest attention again to the 
approaching election. 



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You have no doubt often beard, ray federal friends, 
Avhat those foreigners have said of you, that have come 
from Europe since the American war 

After these intruders upon our hberiies had come to 
our country by thousands, a'ter the war was over, I, as 
a labouring man, went forward as- usuaK to give in my 
federal vote; but alas, to my great surprise, what did I 
hear from these -forcip-ners, who appeared from all ({uar- 
ters in swarms, cursing and blaspheming the federalists 
for tories, and saymg that all the federalists ought to 
be kicked to hell. 

So when I came home, I told my federal frietids what 
strange news I had heard at the election. What is that 
said they. Why, said I, I heard a parcel of newcomers 

crying out that the federalists were all d d tories, and 

that they ought ail to be kicked to hell, for they want to 
sell the Country. 

Hah, said my federal friends, who knew more about 
these foreigners than I did, let them alone, time will show 
•who it is that wants to sell the country. 

Still, however, I heard this awful exclamation against 
the federalists from ci'owds of these forf^i^ners, which 
made me jealous for the honour of my abused countrymen. 
So, as I have grown old, and am not able to labour, I 
thought it was as little as I could do for my country, to 
call your attention to the ensuing election, and assert your 
libertv once more; whilst there is yet i;n opportunity be- 
jfore you. Never was there a louder call for you to recover 
ycur country than at this time. 

Though you have been led away by the lying slander 
of these foreigners, to vote against the peace and unity of 
your own country, and thereby plunged our once flourish- 
ing and prosperous commonwealth of America, mto the 
debt of millions of dollars, in the time of peace, therefore, 
as vou have found out the spirit of a lying democrat, 
Avhich is only to have the power of ruling over you. Come 
forward, therefore, to the ensuing election and vote lor 
yourself, and do not sell your vote for a glass of grog as 
the democrats do, to have a set of foreigners to rule over 
you and your families. You have long since tried the fe- 
del alists, how that they fou!i,ht and delivered our country 
from the tyranny of England, when these foreign wretches 
were in Europe, and after they had overrun your country 
that you fou-lit and bled for, by thousands : then you was 



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SO unhappy as to try the strength of their lies ap-ainst the 
federal government of America. And now vhat is the 
consequence this day ? Why, our country i;. more in 
debt than it was in the American war. 

It is proved in the following lines, that tiie d'jmo<iats 
have spent all the federal improvemer.ls so that the '. cn- 
gressof IS 10 had toboi row near four million: of (■pilars 
to answer the present demands. They are no^y at a loss 
v/hat step to take They have found by sad experience, 
that they have almost ruined the country by their seven- 
teen months embargo to please Bvionaparte, and to spite 
England; and ultimately the French have turned their 
backs upon them and take their vessels. So you see, my 
friends, who it is that wants to sell the country. When 
the French had taken our vessels previous to the en^bargo 
the English would retake them whenevei^ they came a- i ess 
them, and deliver them up to our country again. Notwith- 
standing the democratic or French newspapers are filled 
with daily lies a8;ainst Great Britain, putting her at de- 
fiance and daring her to do her worst, yet the democrats 
cannot get the French to come to their relief. But if it 
was not for the English men of war, how soon the French 
would swarm America, i^ut now they have come to the 
land's end. They have sold and spent all the federal im- 
provements. So that when Madison met the second con- 
gress, they had to borrow five millions of doll'.*rs more, 
and what is the reason ©f borrov/ing so much money in 
time of peace, it is mostly the glory of a country or nation 
that is not governed by a set of fools, to have money in 
thf ir public treasury to lend — why I will tell you, the 
reason is, because those foreign duties tJiat used to fill our 
public treasury, is now shut out ot our harbours, in order 
to assist Buonaparte to ruin England. 

Come forward, then, to the election, and claim your li- 
berty. Although they have with windy words blasphemed 
you to the lowest hell when they see you coming to the 
election, yet for your children's sake, come forward this 
lime and take the government, lest, some unfortunate cir- 
cumstance happens that the French land among you, and 
then you are done forevei . O ye Americans, tell you" sons 
and your hired men the awful approaching ci; ::umstance, 
and do not stay at home for your fsmily's sake j to be ruled 
by these foreign tyrants any longer. I myself, as aii indi^ 

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vldual, have been cut off from my civil and religious liber- 
ties by Sv.cli tyrants as these, as I shall show you hereafter. 
'I'his is just like a piece oF business .that the king of 
Great Britain wanted to impose upon us, after our fore- 
fathers embarked from Europe to America, a wild uncul- 
tivated region, and after they had improved it for many 
years, and had made it all but a new world, then they dropt 
in upon us with their warlike armies as a cloud, and want- 
ed to load us with taxes and heavy burthens, wiiich we 
were not able to bear. Then we begged and besought 
them not to treat us so severely, and we would still conti- 
nue to honour them as our elder, and as children we would 
be faithful to pay them our common tribute. But no, all 
that v/e could say to them, tliey were determined that we 
should bend to their heavy yoke. Then, when we found 
that they would not be entreated by us, a number of our 
country farmers srose and shook themselves as lions be- 
reaved of their whelps, and then went out and beat their 
ploughshares into swords and their pruning hooks into 
spears, Joel iii 10, and then met these tyiants sword in 
hand, and fought them seven years, and if they had not 
gone away ashamed to their own country, v^e should have 
have foughi them stvcn years lonj:;er5 befor- we would h'-ive 
i^iven up to bow to their heavy yoke ; however, it pleased 
Heaven that we should become an independent nation. 

So, after the war was over, our Congress called a con- 
vention oT two men out of every state in the union, to fo; m 
a const'tution. So the whole thirteen states that hud joined 
together during the war to deliver thcmsQives from the 
British yoke, they now also agreed as the heart of one 
man, to form a federal union : then our swords were beat 
back into pIou-.';hshares and our spears into pruning hooks; 
for, as the lord would have it, we were now better off" than 
if England had accepted our common tribute, and that was 
three millions a year at that time, our country was as the 
garden of the Lord, and we could stretch our lines far and 
wide, and the government tax that we used to pay to En- 
gland we could now lay up in our own treasury. Neither 
was this all the Lord was pleased to bestow upon us, foi^ 
the basis of our constitution was founded upon liberty of 
cpnscience to all religious denominations. 

So it pleased the Lord in the beginning of our sorrows 
when the war first began, to go out in the morning as it 
were at the third liour of the day, to hire a labourer to 



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come over from Enshnd, to labour in his -i^eyard here 
^1 America, bv the name of Francis Asbury \\ hile tl.e 
SmiTB weri s, iUins the Wood of thousands, th-.s labo«n„s 
nSr;irc;d''othef thousands to the hea« ior s>n. ng 

a^ainFt their Maker, vvlndi "^«''•t''^7,*'""^ l-^^'Vain 
high lime for them to return to l^etr fee e.al head afeam, 

kst he turn them in'.o the prison of 1- ' ^ f ' '°. .7X, 
TTiented 'vith that old democrat the devil and then tati.ti 
^homth^ylave served, John viii, 44. These s^aughteing 
armies f»> ?ht v^ith the carnal weapons of wai , "i t »n^ 
m^n Who laboured in his Mfer's vineyard, tnighuih 
the sword of the spirit, which is the word ot God that .e 
preached, which was mighty to pUl down the ugh looks 
of that old democrat's subjects to bow to the federal scep- 

"'alrvl^: to ci:t it vvas my happy lot to discover by him 

ihat I was serving that old democrat the "-;.Uand«i 

I possessed all the earth, yet .t I •:™;"""';t ° f,, "'to a 
inJiis service, 1 should at last with him. ''«''-" "'=^',''°^ 
l^e of f.re and brimstone, and the devil that deceased them 
was cas into the lake of fire and brimstone, where he 
beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormentea 
(Hv and nmht forever and ever. Rev. xx. lu. 

So I have returned-to my federal head again, and he has 
T^vomised me, that if I live and die in his service, that I 
^haT rise to everlasting life ; if any man serve me let him 
?oltow me ; and, whei^e I am there shall my servant be; 
f any mar^ serve me, him vvill my father honour John 
lii Ye. Reader, are you serving the Lord your federal 

^''so'after the ^var was over, we formed a federal consti- 
tvalon. and our harbours were open to receive some ot all 
nations that had a mind to come and live peaceably with 
us But before we were aware of it, our country was so 
filled with the dregs of them old troublesome nations, that 
ve did not long enjoy our liberties, for those that left then- 
own countries not for building < hurches, came among us 
by swarms ; and said that we wanted to sell the country 
to England, and that we were all tones, and therefore we 
ou^ht to be kicked to hell. This was a pleasing .ale to 
thousands of refugees, that used to hide themselves in the 
swamps in the day time, Uke mght owis, and then at niehts 
they would come outof their holes, kill the mhab.tan s and 
then take iheir property fur their own service ; and yet 



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these dregs of Europe have the impudence to call us toHes. 
However, we know what they did since they have j^jined 
•with the devil, that old wicked democrat, and their night 
owls, that lay hid in the day time durinj^ the war, and that 
was, say they, let us ever brand the federalists w'ith being 
tories, and that they warit to ruin the country, and to sell 
it to England, let us never alter tiiis tale, but stand to it 
to the last moment, and we shall be sure to take the coun- 
try. Then they sent disaffected men that were always 
accustomed to rebellion and discord all over the country, 
before the election, saying', behold, have you hoard what 
the federalists say, that the country never will be worth 
any thing until it is put into the hands of a few" leading 
men, and that poor men ought not to have a right to vote 
at the election. Come forv.'ard to the election whatever 
you do, and vote for such men that are good, and do not 
let the country be sold. So when the election came on, 
there were thousands of the most vile characters, who 
perhaps were never at an election before, and it ma^ be, 
knew not wiiat it v/as for, except by hearsay ; and then 
tliey were filled with drunkenness, Avhich naturally filled 
them with curses and repr: aches against the most honour- 
able characters that were then in the world, so that it was a 
shame for any man of credit to be seen among them; 
then our liberties were taken from us. and our country di- 
vided and filled with confusion by the most blackest cha- 
racters that was then in the known world 

Now, gentle readers, I will just ask you this one ques- 
tion, is there one man out of the many hundred thousands 
•who have left Europe since the American war but what 
is a democrat? If you can, then 1 can show you a man 
of credit and honour to our country : a man that is willing 
to live in peace and unity with all mankind. 

But these men that have come among us since the war, 
talk of liberty Was there ever a country worse opprest 
than ours since the democrats have got the rule ? We are 
load'jned with taxes upon taxes, and the country still in 
debt; so that the 10th congress had to borrow many mil- 
lions of money to answer the present demands. Besides, 
the very spirit of a democrat is wicked ; it make a reli- 
gious man lose the spirit of his station when he talks in 
fiivour of the democrats : for they cannot say any thing 
in their favour without lying, apd then he loses the life and 
power of rcJigion out of hib soul 



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Perhaps the devil, that old democrat, never had a great- 
er harvest of lies in one nation since the world be^an, than 
he had at the first democratic election. If common la- 
bourers came to the poll as usual, then these friends of 
tliat old democrat would say to them, " who are you going 
to ^oie for," why, said they, we are going to vote lor the 
federalists. Then they would swear and say, " you fools, 
arc you Roing to sell the country ?" Then they would 
cuise and blaspheme the federalists to hell for tories. 
The 'e never was a people more abused than the federalists 
were at that time ; and this is the way the democrats divi- 
ded the country and got the power in ti^cir own hands, by 
lying and s auder, our country was never so wicked as 
it is now, since the democrats have got the power. 

I will just state one circumstance out of many, and that 
was how the leading democrats ascribed their thanks to 
Thomas Jefferson, for the many favours they had received 
by the kind offices that he had bestowed upon them. And 
do you think, my federal fi lends, that they did it for no- 
thing ? No, for I knew one man out of many, who had 12 
offices, because they had not men enough to trust an office 
with. Yet they were glad of any drunken vagabond's vote; 
then, afcer ihe election is over, they do not know them till 
the election comes on again. Now, my iriends, do not you 
think that this was a grand scheme of the democrats to 
take the country from us? Hovv'ever, their lies are begin- 
ing to wear thread bare; they are beginning to tremble 
more and more, lest they should be found out. Notwith- 
standing they double fortify their lies in the newspapers. 
But all wont do, for they find that they have to give up, so 
farewell po®r democrats. What an unhappy spirit a de- 
mocrat must be of, always under the curse of God : never 
satisfied unless they are telling soKie lie against the fede- 
ralists 

The democratic prints say, that when the federalists went 
out of power they left but one million in the treasury, and 
that they had run the country a hundred million of dollars 
in debt. Was not this a great talc to tell us that did 
know no better; if they had said a hundred thousannd mil- 
lion, it would have been just the same, for our country had 
not been independent long enough, for to get in debt with 
any one; it is true our country borrowed three million of 
dollars from France to carry on the war against England, 
and the interest upuu that, and itwould be very strange 



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if that would amount to a hundred million of dollars in 
the course of twelve years. 

But see how soon this tale was altered, after the demo- 
crats were in power only one year. They said by the 
good economy of the republican government they had, 
sunk that enormous debt of a hundred million of dollars. 
See what a fool he devil can mai^e cf a democrat. Was 
not this a grand tale, my federal friends; the democrats 
can outrun you far away, by telling you such dirty tales 
as these. But il they settled off that ti.ree million of dol- 
lars that our congress boriowed from France, then they 
did very well. But let us see by whose good economy 
they did that It is well knowr- by ail that lived at that 
time, that England and France both fell upon our mer- 
chantmen, after the American war was over, and that, be- 
tween them both, they took better than nine hundred sail 
of our merchantmen. Well but, says one, that canno: be, 
for France was in alliance with our covmtry So they 
were, but they did not take any of our vessels at that time;. 
but after the war was over, France, our ally- made a tem- 
porary peace with England to snit ihemselves, and for 
England to withdraw her armies from America, and so 
on— Our governor Franklm was ui tht ttmrt of Fraac^ in 
all this business. 

But please to observe that our country had made no 
commercial treaty of peace with England all this time; sa 
Ihey seized upon all our vessels that went to their islands. 
However, our Congress sent governor Jay from New 
York to England, who made a treaty of peace with lord 
Grenviile, between England and America on certain con- 
diiions. So back Ivli. Jay comes, and the next thing to 
be done was, that general Washington, as our president, 
muht either sign the ratification that governor Jay made 
with England, or else enter into a new war with England. 
So our oldest and best of generals consulted general Rut- 
lage, and other secretary judges of the United States, 
upon it, and rather than enter into a war again tht-y sign- 
ed the treaty. So Fngland allowed us three million of 
dollars. Well, the next thing that followed, France, our 
old ally, got angry with us ior making a treaty of peace 
with England; then they set to taking our vessels. Then 
our Congress sent an ambassadour to France to make a 
treatv, but they wanted our ambassadour to give them 
three millions of livres before they would attempt to 



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make a treaty with him. However, after they had tk- 
tained our arnbassadour for many months, they made a 
treaty of peace to suit themselves. But before they would 
make a treaty with us they got to taking our vessels, so 
that they came into our harbours and took our vessels out. 
Then our congress'was called in the summer time to con- 
sult what they had best to do to prevent them from co- 
j-ning up to our towns. So they passed a resolution for 
all the merchants in the United States to arm their ves- 
sels, and to go to sea and fight their way clear if they 
would not let them pass, while they got ready some large 
privateers to help them; the mer.chants were ordered not 
to take any, but to sink all that would not let them pass. 
And while they were getti; -g ready for sea Congress laid 
a three months embargo. Then all America was moved 
as a man to meet these Frenchmen ; for America was not 
lightly to be insulted by every one that had a mind to im- 
pose upon her. 

So in three months lime they went out and swarnied 
the seas with American vessels, that were ready to give 
these Frenchmen a little powder and ball, if they would 
not let Ihem pass. However, there was one of these French^ 
men who thought he -vroukl cool the pride of these haughty 
Americans that passed along the high seas so daringly. 
So down he comes with a sixty gun ship, as bold as a sheep, 
upon one captain Truxtun,w^ho commanded a 44 gun ship, 
« Who commands that ship ?" " Captain Truxtun." 
<* Strike your colours and come along side, before I blow 
a broadside into you.'* " Let us try what powder and ball 
will do first." Captain Truxtun then addressed himself to 
his crew, and said, now my brave boys, if ever you played 
the man in your lives, try yourselves now, and let us show 
this Frenchman what Americans can do. So to it they 
went, and you never saw a wasp play round a bee hive 
worse than captain Truxtun did around this Frenchman, 
for the space of three hours; when he found his vessel 
hulled to that degree, that he was glad to leave captain 
Truxtun victorious, or he would have sunk along side of 
him. In this way our brave tars cleared the Ameiicaii 
coast of these pirates. 

After this the Spaniards attempted to invade us across 
the Mississippi. This took a i^reat army to stop them. 
Afterwards the whisky boys made an insurrection in the 
back couotieg : this cost the trouble of another army to 



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suppress them Notwiihstantling all tliese troubles, wlucli 
the Icderal government surmounted, the democrats have 
the impudence to say, that the federalists are tories, and 
\vant to sell the country. 

x\fter our country had overcome these troubles, they 
consulted measures to settle the expenses which accrued 
by the raising of these armies, and for the support of the 
navy to clear the American coast of French pirates. To 
efTect this object, a tax was laid upon all real estate in pro- j 
portion to its value. Thus the man who possessed a poor 
house paid but a few cents, whilst the possessor of a splen- 
did one paid a large sum : than which nothing could be 
more equitable. But before this could be all collected, 
the democrats divided our country and took our hberties 
from us, by saying that we were tories and wanted to sell 
the country to England. In six months after they got into 
power this tax was nearly all gathered in, which amounted 
to 1 1 millions and a half of dollars. But this was not all, for 
the democrats sold the bank stock and ail but a new world of 
back lands, and such part of the navy as they saw proper, 
which made many millions more : and then they boasted 
that the public debt was paid, and that the e^was ro many 
millions in the treasury besides D\it, my feder^^l friends, 
by whose good economy was this done ? It was by the 
illustrious conduct of the old American victors, whose lives 
werj not dear to them when they fought themselves free 
from the tyranny of Britain. But the federalists do not 
govern for them now, and they have no more federal im- 
provements to sell. Is it any wonder then that our country 
is in debt now. The democrats say that the federalists arc 
hired by the Eiigli h to print against them. What an un- 
likely tale that is. It is just like the hundred million of dol- 
lars. But have not the federalists as good a right to say 
that the French has hired them to print against the fede- 
ralists Is there any so busy at our elections as tliose that 
have come to our country since the American tvar ? Is it 
any wonder then ilsuch men by their lies could fall upon 
the spoils of victory after the battle was over; any coward 
would do that if he could So then they nidy well fill their 
French newspapers with lies ai;ainst th federalists, after 
they sacrificed their lives and fortunes to clear themstives 
from tiic tyranny of En{;kind, and this is a fact the demo- 
crats cannot deny. So that when the federals print ag:.. 'St 
the democrats they have a cause for their complaints be- 



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cause the democrats were in Europe when the federalists 
fought the battles of America. But when the democrats 
print their black cloud of lies that they send to hell every- 
day about the federalists, it only serves to swell the pride 
of their father the devil, for he was a democrat from the 
beginning. See how he divided the federal unity between 
earth and heaven. Just so the democrats have done. — 
After we had foeght the battles and formed a federal con- 
stitution, then the democrats came from all parts of Eu- 
rope, and divided our country, and deprived us of our li- 
berty. 

As to myself, there are two causes which I shall never 
betray. First, by divine assistance, I never will betray the 
cause of my God with respect to my own immortal soul, 
to have a good name among mankind. Secondly, I never 
will betray the federal cause of my country for the sake of 
interest, though as a poor labouring man there is no one 
stands more in need of it than I do; though many for the 
sake of interest have turned their backs upon the federal 
cause. 

I see the democrats advertising the 4th of July to be 
kept in memory of their forefathers. I wonder where 
their forefathers were when the federalists declared them- 
selves free from the tyranny of England; they were not in 
America, but after the war was over they came to Ameri- 
ca by thousands, and swelled themselves, and said the 
federalists were tories, and wanted to sell the country to 
England. 

When Buonaparte got our democrats to lay an embargo 
agamst England, all the excuse they had to make when 
they saw our country was ruined by it, was, We have 
saved our shipping by it. What a childish tale that was. 
If^they wanted to take them I wonder what hindered them? 
Was It the dreadful and tremendous gun boats, laid up in 
our dry docks^to rot, that Buonaparte got our democrats 
to build •- 1 he democrats have told us a thousand times 
ot the attack on the Chesapeake. They never tell us any 
thmgofthe French burning our vessels at sea, and seizing 
numbers of American vessels and cargoes in their har- 
bours, sellmg tliem, and putting the money into their own 
treasury; and of keeping our seamen prisoners from their 
wives and children. All the democrats have wanted this 
long time was, that they might land an army in America, 

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and to make a king for every state, and set Thomas Jeffer- 
son emperor over them all, as they did to Buonaparte. 

Will you suffer it, my federal friends? let it never be 
said that America should bow down to the slavish sceptre 
of a democratick despot. You have already proved what 
they M'ould do if it was not for the want of your treasures: 
therefore, though you have been ashamed to be seen at 
our late elections, among so many strangers, "who have 
come to America since the war, and stand in crowds round 
the election poll, cursing and swearing, and saying that the 
federalists ought all to be kicked to hell. Yet, for your 
childrens' sake come forward to our next election, for your 
family are five times stronger than ever; therefore, come 
forward with them and give your votes; for you may see 
youi^elf, that the congress complain of our country being 
ruined for keeping the embargo on so long. 

Time was when the democrats could boast of paying off 
the publick debt, with the money which the federalists had 
prepared for them to receive, when they got into power; 
but they have no more federal improvements to make mo- 
ney of; therefore, arise you federal friends, and come and 
take the government again before these poor wretches come 
and take the rest of your property, under a pretence of 
keeping the government up. 

The democrats say they never enjoyed such liberty in 
their lives as they do now Did they ever speak a truer 
word? After the federalists had delivered themselves 
from the tyranny of England, then the democrats came 
from all parts of Europe, and joyned with a number, that, 
for the sake of interest, turned their backs upon their own 
country, and took our liberty from us; and now these fo- 
reign democrats are made officers to rule over us. Are 
there not Americans enough to rule our country, that you 
have to go to Europe to get tyrants to reign over us? 

If a federalist disputes the rightof his cause with a demo- 
crat, then, because he cannot stand the power of reason, he 
falls to cursing, and damning, and sinking the federalists 
all to hell; which naturally proves that their cause is bad. 
JVrise then my federal friend and come forward to the 
election and claim your rights before the democrats get a 
reinforcement from France, and then take your lives as 
well as your country from you. 

Five years ago tlierc was some members in Congress 
offered a resolution to the house for to raise an army, and 



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a suitable naw, to defend our common lights from the 
robberies that we, as an independent nation, daily suffered 
by the French and English. 

Then the friends of Bonaparte in Congress cried out: 
What, say they, go to war, to run the country in debt; let 
us lay an embargo upon all our merchant vessels, and if 
ihe English or French offers to come on our seacoast, we 
will raise a number of gun boats, thai will soon make these 
British dogs scamper back to their own country again. 

So, as the democrats were a majority in Congress, this 
resolution was passed; there was an embargo laid that 
lasted seventeen months, and the consequence was, that 
many thousand vessels that belonged to our merchants 
were layed up in our dry docks, to rot in the hot mud du- 
ring the summer season. Neither was this all the loss 
our country suffered. There was the duty upon import- 
ed goods, which amounted to many millions of dollars 
every year, more than sufficient to pay our governmental 
tax, that now has to be paid out of every poor man's la- 
bour. 

This was a league Bonaparte had made with our Presi- 
dent, in hopes that England would be so starved out by it 
that they would be glud to humble themselves to him. 

But when they saw that England got her supplies from 
another quarter, then they laid their Berlin and Milan de- 
crees, to cut off the supplies of every other nation that 
offered to trade with England; but the brave New Eng- 
land states, that first delivered America from the British 
yoke, began to see these French tricks Jefferson wanted to 
impose upon them by degrees. But our New England 
states told Congress that if they did not take those French 
restrictions from among them, that they would go to sea 
and see who would hhider them; and for fear that the spi- 
rit of seventy six should spread too far and wide among 
those New England men. Congress was glad to take oft' 
these embargo laws for a while. When Bonaparte heard 
that, he was so enraged at our President that he threaten- 
ed what he would do if he did not lay another embargo. 
So as Mr. Randolph and Mr. Grundy, two democratick 
members in Congress, said that James Madison was a 
Fr(!nch citizen, what could any one expect but that he 
would obey his master the Emperour of France. And 
then another embargo was laid, and last of all a war 
^-^ainst England; and when some ef our federal members 



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ii) Congress last winter offered a resolution to make pcarc 
vvith England, says the democraick members, if we make 
peace vvith England what will France think. Have we 
any inheritance in France ? Methinks 1 hear every true 
American saying no. Why then should we care what 
France thinks. Let our congress do their duty as Ame- 
ricans, and not as Frenchmen, then we will be ready to 
serve them. But if it is true what John Randolph says, 
that Madison is a French citizen; if he wants to go to 
war witli England so bad; why dont he go to France, and 
fi^ht like a man, and not involve our whole country in 
blood to satisfy a foreign despot. Time was, my fellow 
labourers, when we fought for the independence of our 
country, from the tyranny of England, but now we have 
to fight the battles of France, by taking Canada for them. 
Fellow citizens, what shall we say, or what can we do, 
to put a stop to these growing evils, but by voting for fe- 
deral members in Congress again, that will support the 
independence of America. It is now nearly twelve years 
since these foreign democrats have taken our liberties 
from us, and have given the government of our country 
to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, who have suf- 
fered Bonaparte to take better than fifty million of dollars 
worth of our merchants* property; and when our mer* 
chants sent their petitions to Congress for indemnification 
ibr the immense loss of their property that had been sto- 
len from them by these French pirates, their petitions is 
thrown under the table. 

O ye Americans I and fellow labourers, I hope that the 
sufferings you have undergone these eleven years past, 
during the reign of these foreign democrats, has suffi- 
« iently cautioned you to take care who you vote for at an 
election again ; therefore, as you have tried the lying prin- 
ciple of a dcmocratick government, almost to the ever- 
lasting loss of your common rights and liberties at an 
election, come forward then to the ensuing election, and 
dont sell your vote to a lying democrat again for a glass 
of grog, but remember the flourishing state of our coun- 
try\vhen the spirit of seventy six had the rule over us, 
us our guardians then, we poor labourers had our own 
houses and lots of groimd, and a horse and cow or two. 

But alas, my fellow labourers, where are we now. See 
pale poverty looking in at our doors; our houses and lands 
h sold to support a set of lying democrats in Congress, 



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that can set from six to eight months at one session, and 
not pass one bill throua^h the house except it pleases Bo- 
naparte — John Rancloiph said that captain Cook might 
sail around the world before they passed one bill through 
Congress— and at the expense of six dollars per day for 
each private member, and five and twenty thousand dol- 
lars a year for a foreigner to rule over us as president. If 
I had only five and twenty thousand cents per year I 
would do more business than all the whole body of demo- 
crats have done these 12 years past. And what would 
you do, says one: why, I would tolerate all the merchants 
in America, that had a mind to risk their property at sea, 
to arm their vessels, and to go and trade with these nations 
that would trade with them, and if any nation offered to 
interrupt them on the high seas, for to make the best of 
their way by running from them, and if they still would 
not let them pass, to fight their way clear. But every 
merchant should give sufficient security for their good be» 
haviour to all nations before he left the harbour, and by so 
doing we should draw the wealth of all nations to America, 
and then the European nations Would be glad to make 
peace with us, when they saw we were determined to 
defend ourselves. 

But for us, as an independent nation, to beg and pleadj 
besides hireing those old troublesome nations to make peace 
with us, year after year, while we have nothing to defend 
ourselves with, is the greatest folly in the world ; for by 
so doing, America makes herself a mere laughing stock 
to the nations of Europe. 

You see therefore, my fellow labourers, what a body of 
ruling members we have had these twelve years past in 
congress, fighting those European powers at a distance, 
and at the expence of our whole country ; for Eni^land 
knows that there is not a wise man in the present ruling 
party in congress, and Buonaparte calls them a set of fools, 
for he knows if he can only get the worth of fifty millions 
of dollars more of our merchants property, that America 
will not be worth much after that. 

However, as Thomas Jefferson saw the ruin that he 
and his party had brought the country into, he thought 
it would be best for him to make his retreat from the 
seat of government as soon as possible, and for fear that 
common labourers should find him and his office hunters 
out, he thought it would be best to consult his.friend GaUa- 

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tin, the Secretary, how he might best escape the everlast- 
ing disgrace that wouid, no doubt, fall upon him, should 
common labourers find out his French tricks; for he was 
sure that Buonaparte would conquer England in a year or 
two more, and then who was to be crowned Emperor of 
the whole continent of America, but Thomas Jefferson? 
And in order to hold up the faini expectations ot him 
and his party, they greedily reported every French lie that 
was printed in the democratick newspapers, till they could 
hide their secr^ t councils no longer, for common experi- 
ence taught every labouring man, that we used to have 
bettc! times when the federals had the government of our 
country liut, my fellow labourers, let us hear what a 
cunning plot Thomas Jefferson, and his friend Gallatin, 
laid to deceive the people, before he left the seat of go- 
vernment. Why what do yuu think, my federal friends, 
would unite the hearts of these foreign democrats to hini 
more than the news of an overflowing treasury, from the 
wise and glorious economy of Thomas Jefferson; and, 
says one, what good thing did he do, that the name of 
Thomas Jefferson had become so illustrious in the ears of 
all tltese foreigners? Why, reader, do you ask that, only 
read the democratic newspapers of 1808 and 9, there you 
will see something that would even set nations to wonder- 
ing at the wisdom that Thomas Jefferson was possessed 
of, that in eight years tmie, he did not only settle off that 
enoi mous debt of one hundred millions of dollars, that the 
federalists had run the country into, but that he had left 
the public treasury with forty millions of dollars, so that 
Mr. Gallatin reported that there was money enough in the 
treasury, should a war break out by France or England 
against us, without laying a new tax upon our country. 
This joyful news soon run from Dan to Beersheba, and 
from one democrat to another, and not a man that was a 
federalists was suffered to hold an office any longer, but 
any foreigner that had come to this country since the Ame- 
rican war, though he narrowly escaped the deserved halter 
befure he left Europe, yet if he only would be a democrat, 
he was put in office, to rule over us poor Americans, and 
to call us tories. These were trying times, my federal 
friends. 

but let us see my fellow labourers, what this most wise 
statesman Thos Jefferson, and his friend Mr. Gallatin re- 
<Ammeitfls the public U> do with this surplus money^ that 



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was in the public treasury, why, in order to strengthen 
the next presidential election for James Madison, they 
wisely recommended the public to cut new rivers, and 
large canals through the country, and to make new turn- 
pike roads wherever there was any wanting, with this un- 
necessary money that lay dead in the treasury. 

But alas for us poor democrats, we are found out at last, 
for when the very first congress that Madison met, they 
had to borrow three millions seven hundred thousand dol- 
lars to answer their present demands, where is the forty 
millions of dollars now? Deny this if you dare, Mr. De- 
mocrat, Well, is this all ? No, the next congress had 
to borrow five millions more. 

Well, says you, what is the present congress doing ? 
Wbyy tliey have passed a resolution to borrow eleven mil- 
lions of dollars more. What is that for, say you. Why 
to v^o to war with England, the only friend that America 
has in this world. And what is that for? Why, because 
Buonaparte is not able to fight England himself, so that 
he has commanded our democratic president to raise an 
army of five and twenty thousand men, to assist him to 
fight the battles of the whole world. 

So in order to strengthen the nc^Kt election in favour of 
Madison's party in New England, the democrats hired a 
traitor by the name of John Henry, for the sum of forty 
eight thousand dollars publick money, to report to Con- 
gress that the federalists in the New P^^ngland states wanted 
to make a private confederacy with England aaainst the 
present government. This is like Jefferson hiring Tom 
Paine the impostor to write against the federal govern- 
ment, and against our Lord and Saviour. So he and his 
party had to try this traitor John Henry, to see what ef- 
fect his lie might have upon the minds of poor people. 
But as all traitors will be clothed with shame, so was he 
when he returned to congress his shameful message. Not 
a federalist could he accuse as a traitor to his country ; for 
the reader will please to observe, that it was not democrats 
he was trying to deceive, if he had, he might have re- 
turned with traitors enough to have taken the whole house 
of congress, but it was the American victors that once 
fought for the liberty and inde{)endence of their country; 
and the reader must know th- 1 they were not to be de- 
ceived by a foreign traytor now. 



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Come then, my American brethren, and try a federal 
government again ; for to our sorrow we have tried demo- 
cratic government, and you see yourselves, after they had 
spent every thing- America was worth, then they had to 
borrow three miiUons seven hundred thousand dollars in 
the time of peace. Well, did they settle that off? No, 
truly ; but the very next congress passed a resolution to 
borrow five millions more. Well, did they settle that 
off? No, really that is not what a democrat can do at 
all, for Buonaparte says that he wants money, and he says 
he must have it : so that instead of paying- off our public 
debts, we have to raise money to answer Buonaparte's 
purposes. But is this all they borrowed ? No, really ; 
the third congress under Madison's reign had to borrow 
eleven millions more. And what is that for ? Why, to 
take Quebeck ; for Buonaparte says, all that ever has been 
French shall be French again. And how are these many 
millions of dollars to be paid again ? Why, by the sv/eat 
of our brows, my fellow labourers. — Thebeare facts which 
the democrats cannot deny. 

When the federalists undertook to fight for their inde- 
pendence from the tyranny of England, we had neither 
men nor money to ml^et those powerful tyrants, so that 
we had to hire a French army, arms and ammunition, 
that cost us three millions of dollars, and with that small 
hire, by Divine assistance, we cleared the whole thirteen 
United States of America from that tyrant host. But 
the democrats tell us poor labourers that it will cost them 
eleven million of dollars to take Canada, see what a vast 
difference there is between men that rule for the good of 
their own country, and men that rule to please a foreign 
despot. 

Would you then my friends, as Americans, be so unwise 
as to vote for such men, that are forever running us in 
debt as they have done. 

The democrats are sworn upon the ruin of our country. 
I heard one of those foreign democrats say that before 
he would vote a federal ticket, he would rather go to hell; 
and oh, I was surprised to hear of his death a little time 
after: so I suppose that he got his wish. What an awful 
state a democrat is in, who then would be a democrat but 
a wicked maji. 

But says some of you, if we vote for a federal govern- 
ment will not the farmer and the mechanic, and common 



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labourer still ha^e to pay the public debt that the demo- 
crats have run our country into ? I answer, No. It wi 
be paid by opening a free and commercial trade with all 
nations ; then all the nations of the whole world will come 
and pour out their bounties into the lap of America, and 
the duties upon all those foreign goods will soon cause the 
smile upon the face of every true American again. 15ut 
vou must not destroy yourself by your own consumption, 
such as the idle use of snuff and tobacco. There is no 
man that uses tobacco but what he and his family spends 
moie for tobacco than would pay their yearly taxes. Uh, 
but, says one, 1 could not live without tobacco ; this is 
false in the strongest terms: a man may hve without to- 
bacco, but without his natural food he cannot live. How 
often has it been known that the duties upon one ot those 
merchantmen has amounted to five thousand dollars ; and 
suppose one of those merchants should make two such 
trips a year to this country, that would amount to ten 
thousand dollars. Well, where is the most wea thy tar- 
mer in America that pays only five hundred dollars tax 
per year itself; and suppose there was one farmer in Ame- 
rica 'so rich as to pav hve hundred dollars tax per year, 
how many such farmers would ^t take^ to make up ten 
vliouaaiKl dollars per year r— wliy, it would take iorty ot 
them to pay as much tax as one merchant pays a year ; 
and if one merchant pays so much into our publlck trea- 
sury, how much more would fifteen hundred or two thou- 
sand merchants pay every year, if they only paid one 
quarter as much, hut what do 1 say, it is said ot Mr. 
Girard, a Philadelphia merchant, tliat he has paid three 
hundred thousand dollars per year. 

Then, my fellow labourers, if you wish well to your 
families, and to the commonwealth of our country, come 
to the ensuing election then, and vote for men that will 
suppo t our merchants with a free trade again, and by so 
doing I trust, that the name of democrat and federalist 
will be lost in the great name of being called American 
brethren, and being thus united, no power on earth will 
be al)le to harm us. 

Reader, who can deny that the curse of God is on the 
councils of the present rulini; party in congress; have we 
not greatly sinned by rebelling against the federal govern- 
ment of America : witness the anger of our Maktv aga.nst 
our country has not every state in the union tremblea at 



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the awful peesence of Almighty God in the recent earth- 
quakes. 

And now I submit this small treatise to your most im- 
portant consideration, that if you want to be free Ameri- 
cans, come and vote for men that will guard the civil and 
religious rights of a poor man, without the fear of oflend- 
ing a foreign despot. I, for my zealous attachment to 
my religious profession, and to the federalists, have been 
unjustly turned out of meeting by a set of these foreign 
democrats, and because 1 have published their unjust pro» 
ceedings against me. No savage Indian or Turk has ever 
used a man so bad as they have me ; but the reason is, I 
am a poor man, and not able to go to law with them, T 
have been dragged five miles on a sabbath day to jail by 
them. At other times I was dragged out of meeting by 
violence; again I have been kicked and stoned, and had 
my clothes torn off my back, at the meeting house door, 
and at last they broke my bones with the butt of a great 
cart-whip, and if my federal friends at Wilmington had 
not rescued me from their blood thirsty hands, I should 
have been killed on the spot. Ihe officer that granted 
a warrant to those democratic tyrants in our church, to have 
•ine put to jcul, ij) Z^^i *^ necting, c^n sTai^d ar.l heai- 
the sacred name 6f God Masphemcd, wirhout lakhi^ any 
notice of it. So the reader may see that he bears the 
sword of justice in vain, to his own disgrace, for it is said, 
they that will not hear the cry of the poor, shall not be 
heard themselves. But if one of those tyrants that has a 
little money, calls upon him for a warrant against me 
for going to meeting, he gives it on the first word. 

And, notwithstanding all this abuse that I have receiv- 
ed from them, I offered to make it up with them, if they 
will only let me alone ; the quakers and presbyteriaiis 
have offered money to have it made up, and governour 
Bassett has offered money to have it made up, but they 
Mali not make up with me, but have bound me to appear 
at the next supreme court, where I am lo be tried for ci- 
villy going to my own place of worship. Therefore, my 
federal friends, when you are met together, please to make 
up a small matter and send to my relief, for God only 
knows what they intend to do with me, and I will still 
endeavour to shew you those hidden tricks that those lo- 
reigncrs, for the sake of their own interest, want lo !i»- 
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